Relic has announced a beta for Dawn of War II: Retribution will hit sometime in “the new year”, and also revealed the game will forgo the use of GFWL like previous titles in the series by using Steamworks only.

Valve’s Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson believe the studio could have done a better job catering to the console crowd, and have admitted “total failure” on the studio’s part to support its offerings on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Thanks to the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 including a mandatory installation of Valve’s Steamworks, Direct2Drive is boycotting the game. Like, it’s not selling it. “We don’t believe games should force the user to install a Trojan Horse,” a rep told Kotaku. The IGN-owned DD service isn’t the only one taking umbrage: Impulse and […]

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will ship with Steamworks, Acti just announced. All PC versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will come complete with the Valve tookset, providing gamers with auto-updating, anti-cheat technology, Steam Achievements, and the recently introduced Steam Cloud. The Steam version will have 50 Steam Achievements. Modern Warfare […]

Relic has announced a beta for Dawn of War II: Retribution will hit sometime in “the new year”, and also revealed the game will forgo the use of GFWL like previous titles in the series by using Steamworks only.

Valve’s Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson believe the studio could have done a better job catering to the console crowd, and have admitted “total failure” on the studio’s part to support its offerings on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Thanks to the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 including a mandatory installation of Valve’s Steamworks, Direct2Drive is boycotting the game. Like, it’s not selling it. “We don’t believe games should force the user to install a Trojan Horse,” a rep told Kotaku. The IGN-owned DD service isn’t the only one taking umbrage: Impulse and […]

The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will ship with Steamworks, Acti just announced. All PC versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will come complete with the Valve tookset, providing gamers with auto-updating, anti-cheat technology, Steam Achievements, and the recently introduced Steam Cloud. The Steam version will have 50 Steam Achievements. Modern Warfare […]

Valve claimed that its Steamworks toolset “makes DRM obsolete” in a press release today, one which celebrated the addition of “Custom Executable Generation (CEG) technology” to the system. “[CEG] compliments the already existing anti-piracy solution offered in Steamworks,” said the firm. “A customer friendly approach to anti-piracy, CEG makes unique copies of games for each […]

Valve’s put the SteamWorks SDK in the hands of developers, meaning anyone can now integrate Steam into the games from the ground up. There’s loads of information and all the download packages through that link, should this matter to you.

Valve today made a big addition to Steam, its online content delivery system, with Steamworks, a free set of development tools allowing PC game-makers to integrate function “such as up-to-the-hour sales tracking, an encryption system, auto-updating, territory control, voice chat, multiplayer matchmaking, social networking (including features such as Achievements) and development tools, including private betas […]